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(own De Souza, Jeronimo Chlisost 7 .roc; the four Dolor Sampario, and a great many other Gentlemen, whom I do not know, have also ten dered their services during the whole campaign. To the best of my estimation, a force of thirty thou sand men will soon be collected, besides the Militia, and march to Coimbra. It is also in contemplation :o arm the Algarvians and Alentejans, and to march them to Lisbon. You will easily conceive the posi tion in which Junot is placed ; he will at length have done issuing decrees, for if I mistake not, the last of his days is approaching apace. tray let me know whether the Northern Powers shew now inclination to join us, in order to bring on the catastrophe of this tragedy in the course of this yukr. The sequestration of English property, imposed 1-iv.the French, has already been raised, and a Pro clamation to that died was this day posted up in our public places; a convoy is also ready to set sail for England in a short time. It is certain that the Spaniards have lately inter- ' cepted a Courier, who was _going from France to General Junot with Dispatches ; by which it ap pears, that a strong ferment prevails in France, "and that parties are forming in that Country, which shew very serious indications of a general disposition to rise:against the great Usurper of Europe. The con tribution of plate which Buonaparte imposed upon thi.. Country, at least the first payments, are already in Lisbon ; but as the said Capital is on the point of being attacked, the French will not be able to decliek giving the plate up again, unless they should choose rather to lose their heads. It is reported that seve ral guillotines were on their way to their City, and were intended to be ereCled_ in the street Bon Vista and in Almada-street ; a number of boys raised loud acclamations of joy, when they heard that a French General was taken by the Spaniards, and that the people did not impose silence. Lists of the in habitants were already made,out, and every. fifth of them was to suffer death. All the. Communes of this Country are in arms, even the persons belonging to the Holy Inquisition ; in short, every orteis.arm ed. I sag, within the last ten days, Father - Joas Dias carry t he colours of a body of armed men, who catn,from Tinto. EXTRACT OF ANOTHER LETTER FROM THE SAME PLACE, AND OF THE SAME DATE. As to our Government and measures of public safety, traitors and ill-disposed Poi tUguese are taken up and lodged in prison. The day before yesterday two fellows were apprehended, who began the late insurrection, and will now meet with condign pan islnnent. They were implicated'in a plot to batter down part of this City with heavy ordnance,which, as report states, was to be carried into execution in the between the 4th and sth ; and the two Itegi rnents were really under arms the 4th, in the morn ing, without knowing whither they were to march ;. they were only told, that they were to leave the city. As soon as the Government received infor mation thereof, measures were adopted to arrest them, and I understand, that one cf them is to be executed in a few days. JozeCardozo and Luiz De Oliveira are al:it) in prison, but what will be their tate is not yet known. As to Joze De Souza and Salahert, it is this day reported, that they were both apprehended five leagues from this place. Pedro De. Melo, it is said, was intended by Tunot to act as his Comtnisioner in this place, and to chastise the drunkards of .Oporto. But another report states, that he has also been apprehended in the environs of Coimbra. They say, that a considerable French fg,e is on its march hither, by the way of Arauva. Should this prove true, we will join the troops of Coi• ,';re and Figueira, and meet the French. Wo • .7-:1,11t, (hat JuNoT ' s exit is near at hand; all o. Liskl,n are in , t state of insurreaion. tr sl etlee of tile confession made by the two DiAC rw-ntiimed,. Luiz Paulin° has been ~ y, S.-tramento, of :Lisbon, who WAS here, hay exp..ri , eile , :d the ',same" fate: I . apprehend that itniiort,int events will shortly take place among our lien on account of traitorous plots; by them POllCelved. In our prisons; all provisions carried in, as t'elt as all persons who enter the same, are strict ly examined, because letters were found concealed in loaves of bread, in consequence whereof, whole loaves are no longer admitted, Vessels of every de- Kription are also subjea to the striaest inquiry, be rause it was discovered, that some of those,. which had been carried into the prison, contained gunpow der; Wine is also prohibited, because several pri- Ao ners had given the toast, of the Great Usurper of Europe. In short, we witness, and are to witness trausgtions, which should be blotted from the me mory Of man, along with the French -name. Two expressca have arrived from Aranca, with the intelligence, that 3000 French troops .have made their appearance in' Anima, who partly proceeded from -Aranca,. and- were joined by Gen. Loison, to, assist in the execution of the plot which I have above mentioned, to destroy this city. The. battalion of Niana marched this morning, an d will be soon followed by the second battalion of Oporto. How will the. French stare when they see the yellow small clothes* opposed to them, whom they disarmed and disbanded in an ignominious tnan er in Caldas da Rainha. _ Yellow small clothes form part of the *form of the second battalion of 0 owl°, one of the finest body of Iflefl in the Vortuguese service. ExTr.AcT o? 4 LETTER FROM AN OFFICER, COME 11051 E IN TUE GLOIRE. ,‘ We have just come in from Lisbon; the whole of our, crew, and every other we have met witli, are in high spirits -at the happy prospect before us, as every thing is going on favpwahly to the Spanish , PatriotO• Political affairs wear a naor,epleasing aspe& than they tiave dope for .a number of years past. The French Artny, which is estimated at little less than tb,096 men, is completely hemmed in at Lis bon; and all those I have conversed with upon the iubje& have no doubt will fall an easy prey to General Sir Arthur Wellesley, whose fleet of trans ports we fell' in with at sea, on Sunday, t h e 17t h In `t. off Scilly. ‘ The brave Sir Charles Cotton has summoned the 1111451311 fleet, in the Tagus, to surrender to the 43,ritir,h flag; but, strange to say, the Russian Ad 7 roiral, in his ansWer, discovered much violence, as 'N e ll as ;rational and individual enmity to Great twin, and declared Ile would rather burn every Ship pldqr his command than surrender i*a. have the vleowp to say yie lauded great quapti4es of i arms and ammunition at Lagos Bay, and Oporto, for the use of the brave Spaniards. We are now in possession of some, batteries. Sir C. Cotton has nine sail of the-line lying under the Rock, the crews of them are waiting with the greatest anxiety pos sible to be brought into action. " The Russia►. fleet, lying in the Tagus, consists Of nine sail of the line and one frigate. " We were informed at Lisbon, from a quartet that was not to be doubted, in fa& it was generally understood, that the English and Spanish fleets were lying together at Minorca. " We have brought to England Rear-Admiral Obuay, together with a great number of French Pri soners, taken by the Portuguese. Among them is that celebrated charaEter, Monsieur Prigny, Cotn mandant of the French Marine - at Oporto ;he is dis tinguished as a Member of the Legion of Honour; he was Captain of the Fleet in the Memorable Battle of Trafalgar, in which he signalised himself. We have - likewise Monsieur Guimbaud, the tate French Con sul at Oporto, whose house was completely gutted by the populace at Oporto, himself made prisoner, together with the Cummandant of Marine, and a' vast number of Officers of the French army. There is little or no doubt, either of the taking or destruc-. tion of the Russian fleet ; in fad, it appears inevita -ble." MAILS. ARRIVED-1 Dublin, 2 Waterford. Du s-- 7 3 Gotteuburgla, Dublin, i Waterford. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT TWELVE O'CLOCK. Consols - - - 68iil Red. Ann. -68 i 69 THE SUN. ,SOLEM QULS DICZRZ rALEUM AUDZAT L 0 N D 0 IV, FRIDAY, JULY 22, 1808. WE this morning received Gibraltar Papers to the 2d instant, from which we have made the fol lowing extraets FROM THE GIBRALTAR CHRONICLE OF THE - 2d JULY. EDICT published in the Island of Majorca, FIRDINAND king of Spain and adjacent Islands, &c. and in his roya: name, his Excellency the Captain• General of Ins Arm!T and Kingdom. " I make it known to the faithful inhabitants of this Island, that last night I convened in my Palace a meeting, composed of all the Constituted Authort ties, to lay before them the course which ought to be pursued under the existing circumstances, in which both my loyalty and the unanimous wish of the People was, that we should conti nue to acknowledge FERDINAND VII. our law ful Sovereign, in consequence whereof it was agreed upon, that these Islands shall continue faithful to his Majesty FERDINAND VII. to which end, anti that we may have the benefit of the fa exercise Of the rights of Sovereignty, in his name, as far as is requisite, a Board was appointed, which - A - ill begin this very evening to exercise their authority, and publish what may be deemed conducive to the prosperity of the Island. " A 're Deurn shall be sung, and then shall be a levee, royal salute, ar (Signer) L .I.‘IIGUEL DE VIVES." By command of ..;s E,xctllency, and, as Secre. tary, authorise.d by the Board. (Signed) BARLOTOME JO/174.5. Royal Palace at Palma, May 30, 1808. The Supreme Board has sent the followiug Let- ter : " MOST SERENE SIR, " D. DIONISIS CAPEZ, Member of this Board, and an Ensign in the Navy, accompanied by the Portu gueze Captain D. SEBASTIAN MARTINEY, iS going, in the name of this Board, to inform Y. M. S. H. of the occurrences which have lately taken place, and, as they are thought most important, it has been deemed requisite that he should give you verbal account of the same, that you may take the Resolutions 'and send us the assistance which we stand in need of. May God, &c. (Signed) " The Marquis DE CARRION." " Ayanionte, lune .o, 18o8." The purport of this verbal information is, that the French have been driven from the Forts on the right Bank of the Cuadiana,, opposite to Aya monte : the inhabitants of the left, assisted by the, few regulars 'who were there, and a handful of armed Portuguese, have beaten the French by which • they were garrisoned, and hoisted the Spanish flag in . every one of them. The loss -of the enemy amounts to 91 prisoners, and a number killed. The whole of. the Kingdom of Algarve is in a state of insurrection. Villa Real and Castromarin, as well as the Batteries of the Casmasquera and St. Anten have been taken possession of. The 'Rebel, MALLIT, has beep handcuffed, and let down into a dry well, with 26 other individuals. The remainder of the French Troops have fled to the mountains. Tarino, Taro and Onllon, are up in arms, 'and the military chests of the French have been•seized. The few Spanish troops above mentioned consisted of Catalonians, Provincials, and a small number of Murcians. A Portuguese Captain is comp to inform the Board, that Algarve and the whole kngdom wish to be under its proteCtion, in alp name ©f VERPI - VII Particulars of the A uicn between the French Squadron arid -the Batteries at Cadiz.-- F rom the Gibraltar Chronicle. " Royal Lle of Lean, June to. " At a quarter past three in the evening of the 9th inst. the Batteries of the Chornell Del Troaders opened upon the French Squadron, consisting of three Ship of the Line and a Frigate. Those of the Arsenal of the Caracca, of the Storehouses, and Maga- . zines, situated at the Point of Camera, followed immediately, and were supported by the Flotilla stationed in the said Arsenal, and by that on the .Cadiz station, which anchored opposite Fort Louii ; while the French Ships themselves lay in the Canal of the Arsenal, in-such a position that they were out of reach of the Cannon of the Castles, as well as of our own Squadron. The French Ship of the Line Algeciras finding herself greatly annoyed by the itlortar battery of the Caracca, direaed the whole of her fire against it, and succeeded in dismounting its ordnance, but without killing any of the men. The Gun-boat, No. 17, commanded by Ensign of Frigate VALDERS, and Esclacras MESLICA, were sunk, but no lives were lost, as during the whole of the engagement we had but three or four killed; and as many'wounded. f , With respea to the Enemy, we are unac. quainted with the extent of their loss, their Ships having suffered in their hulls, but not in their masts ; the Algeciras alone having lost her fore-top mast and cross-jack yard. " A few shot from the Enemy's Frigate fell in the arsenal, one of which killed one of the slaves; three reached the stores, but did no harm 136, the magazines, which were empty, and others, various other places. " One of the Enemy's Gun-boats blew up, and three boats were lowered from the stern of one of their Line-of-battle Ships, bui whether with people with , them is not known. The firing on both sides ceased at eight o'clock," WE yesterday announced the arrival ,of La Gloire Frigate at Portsmouth. She sailed from the Tagus on the 7th inst. The intelligence which she brings is in perfe& unison with that which bad previously reached us respe&ing the enthusiastic patriotism which prevails throughout Portugal. JUNOT, it ap pears, has taken every possible precaution to secure himself in Lisbon ; he has recalled all the divisions which he had . dispersed in different parts of the Country, by which means his force is raised to about 12,000 men. He has had recourse several times to a very silly expedient, to induce the people of Lisbon to believe that he has received reinfbrcements from Spain : He ordered, at different times, regiments to march out of Lisbon at a very early hour in the morning, and then made them return in the course of the day, covered with dust, as if they had just ar rived from a long march. This manoeuvre, however, only excited the ridicule of the Portuguese. The Spanish troops still remain disarmed on board the hulks in the Tagus. juscrr contrived to disarm them before they were acquainted with the determination of the. People of Spain to resist the atrocious plan of . BITONAPARTE. He ordered them to assemble on the Parade at three o'clock-in, the morning, - where they were immediately surrounded by' the French troops, and ordered to lay down their arms. JUNOT'S fears of the Russians seem to be as great as those which he entertained of the Spaniards, and he has taken every precaution to prevent any inter course between the British and Russian Fleets. General MURAT appears to have been sensible of the dangerous state in which Gener.ll DUPONT was placed; for though his own situation at Madrid was precarious, he dispatched a corps Of aoout 5000 men to reinforce DUPONT, and, according to accounts from Seville, of the 28th ult. that Corps had entered La Mancha, The Marquis DE CASTANOS- had -ad vanced to Cordova, and was taking proper measures to prevent the two French Corps from forming a junEtion. IT is one of the common artifices of party Writers, when they find it difficult to make any substantial complaints against Ministers, to assert, or at least to insinuate, that they are divided among themselves. We have often had occasion to comment upon this hackneyed trick, but we have little reason to do so at ptesent, though the Opposition Writers are as a6tive as ever in the circulation of such reports, be cause they never were circulated with less probabi lity of having any effea - upon the Public, however they may tend to revive the hopes of a desperate party. Never, we will venture to say, were'such reports so little favoured by the real state of the case.—But some of the Opposition Writgrs do not content themselves with merely asserting and. insi nuating that there are divisions in the Cabinets they Kaye the temerity, we might use a much harsher word, to declare that these divisions are injurious to the country and that glorious cause which Great Britain has" so nobly come forward to support on the ( ; :9[l:inent. We stated, a day or. two ago, upon the IDesi authority, that Sir k.WE.l.Liarr Wal destined to proceed to the Tagus, in order to assist the Portuguese, who are as resolute in the attempt to throw off the chains of oppression, as the heroic Spaniards are in. their endeavours to resist the Corsican's iniquitous design to enslave them. But the Opposition Writers, instead of approving the condua of Ministers in be ing thus zealous to support the glorious efforts of the two Nations„ give their own representation of the course which Sir ARTHUR was to pursue, aad then censure Ministers for absurdities which are the mere fabrications of Party. These Writers, without knowing a syllable of Sir ARTHUR'S destination but what they have derived from us, venture to say, that he -was first to proceed to Corunna and Ferrol, in order to communicate with the Spanish Pa- triots, and then detelm;ne whether he was to land in that quarter or proceed to Lisbon.— Can these Writers suppose that the public will believe that Sir ARTHUR was to atit upon uncertain and indeterminate views. Our Readers may be assured that all , praEticable communication is kept up with the Spanish Patriots,, and that all possible assistance ►s rendered to them in another way. Well, but after allowing Sir ARTHUR WitL. LESLEY to proceed to Lisbon, the Writers think it necessary to damp the. public expeetation, and tell us that Sir ARTHUR'S Situation is very hazardous and critical, that his force is barely 10,000 men, that iv- Nor's, "- by every credible source of information,.ton sists of at least 17,000 i." (hovrwilling are these Writers to give credit to any thing favourable to the Enemy, and how sceptical as to every thing advantageous to their Goutitry !) that he is aided by the Russian Ships of War, convertible into so many batteries, and that therefore Sir ARTHUR has " fearful odds" to encounter. As the gloomy disposition of these Writers to presage evil seems to have deprived them of all recolleaion, it may be proper to recall to their minds the state of Portugal which isup in arms against the French, and that JUNOT is so cooped up in Lisbon, that he will have enough to do to defend himself, and he has little reason to rely upon the Russian Fleet, which has long been anxious to escape from such 3 tyrannous Ally, and which might rather be induced to take part against him, considering the progress of events in Spain as well as Portugal —events calcu• lated to rouse_ the detestation of the Russians, when. they find that BUONAPARTE'S aim to elevate his own upstart family induces him to attempt to spread slavery over all Europe. We trust we have allayed the fears of the Opposition Writers . for the, situa_.! tion of Sir ARTHUR WELLESLEY at Lisbon. But Or task is not yet ended, for these same Writers 21'. ledge, without having the least knowledge of the fgt. " that General SPENCER'S force, which is des tined to a 6.1 with Sir A. WELLESLEY, has returned from Ayamonte to Cadiz ;" and this circumstance • they deem " unfortunate," because it will prevent the immediate co-operation of the forces under these gallant Officers. The Writers alluded to are hoc' ever more discreet than we conceived, for they have heard of what Touchstone says, and they know that there is " much virtue in an if:" therefore they wisely • add, that the co-operation, in question, "if absolutely essential (what a sagacloas qualification) to Sir Ail' THUR'S views,must occasion considerable delay." NV* heartily agree with these profound Politicians anti most anxious Philanthropists, that if there were any truth in their premises, there might be some fora in.their conclusion ; but alas with all their " credi' ble sources of information," they must first es' tablish ,the premises before they suffer their " ge' nius ,to hurry them to a conclusion." But whi was it unfortunate or impolitic for General SPENCER to return from Ayamonte to Cadiz ? He had per' formed a service which he was requested to under' take by the Spaniards, and having effe&ually per' formed it, he returned to Cadiz to render them all other service which the situation of their affdirs might require. We now, we trust, have in some degree contributed to soften the alarms of the Party Writers respe&ing the pro )able fate of Sir Aargvi t WELLESLEY at Lisbon, though, as we are per' suaded that they derive comfort from the fabri cation of reports of want of " unanimity, 3 6,tivity,, and enterprize in the Cabinet," it would be un' charitable, to rob them of that poor consolation , particularly as the people of this Country, and of every other, will look with gratitude on the zek vigour, promptitude, and, we doubt not, efficaef , of those .measures which the British Government has adopted in order to stop the careerof a ferocioo l , Despot, and accomplish the deliverance of Europe. On Wednesday, her,MAJEsTY. and the PAIN cEssol with their Royal Highnesses the Dukes of COMO:L I ' LAND And CAMBRIDG-8, honoured Mr. and Mrs. TH 0 R NTON with a visit, at their beautiful villa a" • Lieutenant-General .Lord POET quitted LonO ri c last night, on his way to embark . at Portsmouthi fo b the command which his L..ordship is to have in 0, d " Gran d jor- Gener Expeditialon. -we Ma EDWARD PAGET set off on - nesday for the same purpose. ',Ave About six tons of hats, cockades, and shces, been. sent off from London to Gijon, fer the use the Spanish Patriots,